Dreers Sucks Turkey Nerkers
This story is told by my fraternity brother and guest author, Keith Miller. I also confirmed that Ed Phelps built the transmitter in question.
The hole in the wall was the key to another prank that occurred I believe in 1975. We were sitting around one afternoon when someone walked in with an AM transmitter they had constructed in a class. It worked pretty good, but was too low in power to transmit through the cement blocks. I had inadvertently set up this prank previously, when I had produced an official looking, computerized "student report" on a dot matrix printer (mostly unheard of back then) that included the statement that Eugene sucked big turkey nerkers. I’m not exactly sure what that meant, but it didn’t sound good, and the "student computer” report had the desired effect and sent him into a Dreers orbit.
So – the transmitter sparked the idea of chapter two of the same prank. We used the hole in the wall to get a transmitter antenna into Dreers room and then tuned his radio to the proper frequency. Anybody who knew Dreers knows how precious that little brown transistor radio was to him. We set him up to come=2 0in, sit down with a small group around him – and then, well, someone just had to hear the MSU news broadcast and flipped on his transistor radio. Somehow, I ended up being the MSU news announcer, and after announcing a few mundane items, we had a breaking news announcement – computers at MSU had been reporting that Eugene sucked big turkey nerkers!
It was reported that Dreers went straight up and in one step grabbed the radio and was screaming at it. I appeared in the room during the uproar (unnoticed) and the funniest part was not all of that – he then proceeded to call WMSU not once but twice protesting their report of his presumably lascivious acts with turkeys. He had us all in stitches for 10 minutes arguing with whoever was unlucky enough to answer his calls.
We clued in everyone we knew and for days/weeks afterward we had people stopping Dreers and saying "I heard on WMSU that..." Which would get the typical head down, shaking and muttering response from him every time.
As far as I know, he never heard the true story of what happened that day. Dreers, we love you man! I have to plead guilty, on both counts.
The hole in the wall was the key to another prank that occurred I believe in 1975. We were sitting around one afternoon when someone walked in with an AM transmitter they had constructed in a class. It worked pretty good, but was too low in power to transmit through the cement blocks. I had inadvertently set up this prank previously, when I had produced an official looking, computerized "student report" on a dot matrix printer (mostly unheard of back then) that included the statement that Eugene sucked big turkey nerkers. I’m not exactly sure what that meant, but it didn’t sound good, and the "student computer” report had the desired effect and sent him into a Dreers orbit.
So – the transmitter sparked the idea of chapter two of the same prank. We used the hole in the wall to get a transmitter antenna into Dreers room and then tuned his radio to the proper frequency. Anybody who knew Dreers knows how precious that little brown transistor radio was to him. We set him up to come=2 0in, sit down with a small group around him – and then, well, someone just had to hear the MSU news broadcast and flipped on his transistor radio. Somehow, I ended up being the MSU news announcer, and after announcing a few mundane items, we had a breaking news announcement – computers at MSU had been reporting that Eugene sucked big turkey nerkers!
It was reported that Dreers went straight up and in one step grabbed the radio and was screaming at it. I appeared in the room during the uproar (unnoticed) and the funniest part was not all of that – he then proceeded to call WMSU not once but twice protesting their report of his presumably lascivious acts with turkeys. He had us all in stitches for 10 minutes arguing with whoever was unlucky enough to answer his calls.
We clued in everyone we knew and for days/weeks afterward we had people stopping Dreers and saying "I heard on WMSU that..." Which would get the typical head down, shaking and muttering response from him every time.
As far as I know, he never heard the true story of what happened that day. Dreers, we love you man! I have to plead guilty, on both counts.